Extracts from Public Bill committee consideration of the Data Protection Bill - Mar 13
Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:10
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Victoria Atkins):...People who go missing are often the most
vulnerable in society, and it is vital that those tasked with
investigating their disappearance have the most accurate and
up-to-date information available. We accept that the current
technology available to frontline staff to deal with missing
persons is insufficient. For example, the police national computer
identifies only those currently reported as missing,...Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home
Department (Victoria Atkins):...People who go missing are
often the most vulnerable in society, and it is vital that those
tasked with investigating their disappearance have the most
accurate and up-to-date information available. We accept that the
current technology available to frontline staff to deal with
missing persons is insufficient. For example, the police national
computer identifies only those currently reported as missing, while
the National Crime Agency database includes
only those missing for more than 72 hours. We know that the search
must start the moment that a child or vulnerable person is
identified as missing; we cannot wait for 72 hours. There is no
national record of the history of missing persons in England and
Wales...
The Minister of State, Department for Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport (Margot James):...The amendments
will ensure that, for example, where a bank may have shared
personal data about one of its customers with
the National Crime Agency because of a
suspected fraud, it will not have to tell the data subject about
that disclosure when the customer changes their address with the
bank. That will ensure that the data subject is not tipped off
about the suspected fraud investigation...
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